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Patented May 6, |902. J. F. SULL-IVAN.

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(Application filed Apr. 11, 1901.)

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JAMES F. SULLIVAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO JAMES RICHARDSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 699,591, dated. May 6, 1902.

Application tiled April ll, 190] Serial No. 55,290. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JAMES F. SULLIVAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Files,which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in les; and it consists in providing means for transferring papers from one le to another.

It further consists in providing means for extending the length of the shaft of the file and means for placing the papers on a wire or other suitable means for storing the same.

Figures l and 2 represent a partial side elevation and partial sectional view of a le embodying my invention. Fig. 3 represents a partial side elevation and partial sectional View showing the parts in position to be connected for the lengthening of the iile and shaft. Fig. el represents a partial side elevation and partial sectional View of the lower portion of the shaft shown in Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a file having a base B, having a recess O in the under side thereof, which is' adapted to receive a nut D, which latter engages with a screw-threaded pin E, which passes through the base B and a washer F.

G designates a shaft having recesses at both ends, the inner walls of which are screwthreaded and one end of which is adapted to engage with the screw-stud E, while the other end is adapted to receive the threaded shank I-I of the `impaling-pin J, forming a complete file. If it is desired to lengthen the lile, a threaded stud K can be attached to the upper end of the shaft G, said pin being adapted to engage with a threaded recess in the rod or spindle L, the upper end of which can be connected with the point .I or a hook M, as desired, it being evident that by this means the length of the file may be increased.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a long file, which is particularly adapted for use in stores, such as drnggists, the same-being adapted to receive the bills, prescriptions, or other suitable papers from a day-file, as already de scribed, and the manner of transposing the same will be readily seen. The shaft N is held in the base B by the nut R. The lower end of said shaft has an opening Q therein, the same being primarily closed by said nut, whereby dust, dac., is prevented from entering therein. By removing the shaft from the base B the said shaft can be readily attached to the threaded end of the shaft N of the long file after the hook P is removed, so that the 6e papers on the shaft G can be quickly transferred to the shaft N. Vhen now it is dejsired to remove the papers from the shaft N and store the same, the nut R is unscrewed and a wire or other suitable material S passed 6 5 through the opening Q, and the papers on N can be strung upon said wire and, as before stated, stored in any desired place. The diL ameter or thickness of the shaft N is less than that of the shaft G, so that in transferring 7b papers, doc., from said shaft G to said shaft N they will be readily filed on said shaft N and easily slide down thereon, owing to the opening in the papers, dto., being considerably greater than the diameter of the shaft N.

It will be evident that various changes may be made by those skilled in this art which will come within the scope of my invention, and I do not therefore desire to be limited in every instance to the exact construction I 8o have herein shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a le, a base, a detachable fLling-spin- 8 5 dle thereon and a transfer-spindle having means at one end whereby it may be attached to the lower end of the filing-spindle to the end that the papers from the first-mentioned spindle may be transferred to the other by 9o the joining of the spindles.

2. A iile comprising a base, a spindleremovably held therein, and a second spindle of less diameter, and means for detachably uniting the two spindles to form a continuous one.

3. A file comprising a base, a spindleremovably held thereby, a removable point to said spindle, and a second spindle of less cliameter than the first-mentioned spindle and ioo provided Witharenlovable hook and designed and covering said opening to .exclude dust, to receive the first-mentioned spindle when the., therefrom. saidhook is removed.

4. In a file, a base, a spindle having lower Y* JAMES F' SULLIVAN' 5 threaded end with an opening transversely Witnesses:

through said threaded end, and a nut on Said JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, threaded end securing the spindle to the base C. D. MCVAY. 

